Author Archives: jolanta

I am always interested in matters of the future and the past, which determine my artistic style. Things we forget and things we imagine are far more poetic than things of reality. Art is meant to be surreal and at same time, authentic. The direction of time is one of sequence and uninterrupted lapses. I […]

My process for deciding what to paint is very strict. I look for things with a very distinct sense. Things that I didn’t feel I could paint before are now being realized, as I gain more confidence in myself. I did not do this because I wanted to rescue those rough ideas. My attention really […]

The passage of time always accompanies the fast pace of city life. Disposable culture and temptation continue to overwhelm traditional aesthetic values. Material needs and shallow spiritual cravings are granted temporary satisfaction by destruction and reconstruction. Humans are a part of nature, whose survival and existence are twisted through turmoil and stress. Human beings are […]

Born in 1982 in Chongqing, China, Liu Jia is a very highly regarded sculptor in China today. At such a young age, Liu has already been recognized as probably the best sculptor in his generation, with a solo show at the Les Abattoirs, Modern and Contemporary Museum in Toulouse, France in 2006 where over 100 […]

The body is indeed beautiful, a container holding all flavors of life, a milestone marking all traces of time. God is the greatest artist. He created the human body—the most beautiful work of art. Yet humans are mindlessly leaving marks on their bodies. My body, having already lost its original look, is burdened with culture, […]

In my ideal world, art should be a mysterious garden. A garden that is filled with various exotic flowers and different kinds of aroma. People whose minds have been polluted could become clean again in such clear and fresh fragrance. There are multicolor flowers and orange bristle grass that could only be seen in your […]

I have always loved trees. I make donations to the San Francisco Friends of Urban Forest as wedding presents and in celebrations of births. I also donate trees in loving memory of friends who have died. Often I ask myself, “What will the world be like for generations to come?” If we can plant a […]

My work is an improbable fable consisted of the simplest stuff that people often ignore. I feel sentimentality about time and the circusy nature of romance is something fantastical. I’m not interested in simplistic or pretentious romanticism. What interests me is something like a subtle feeling that strikes when I see a gold-plated cloisonne carelessly […]